Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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QUOTE 13: Change and uncertainty
Strategy in conditions of uncertainty, complexity and change has a very different look to it. On the one hand, strategy must lay out the vision and incentives that determine the evolutionary direction in the enterprise – a complex adaptive system. On the other hand, it must allow for constant learning and updating of models and…
Quote 14: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in…
Quote 15: Cloud Strategy
A cloud platform isn’t an additional element that you add to your IT portfolio. It resembles full-on IT outsourcing more than IT procurement. Cloud Strategy – A Decisions-Based Approach to Successful Cloud Migration by Gregor Hohpe
QUOTE 5: Learning versus Testing
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests. Ken Robinson
QUOTE 12: Conventional operation
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business…
QUOTE 10: Collaborative support
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker